Research Articles

In 2012 a tsunami of media hype began around consumer 3D printing that turned a lacklustre 30-year-old technology into a household name and created massive growth in the industry even among large established players.

The 3D printing industry continues to go from strength to strength. So much so that, depending upon your definition of "robot", half of the market value for industrial robotics will be robots working as 3D printers by 2026.

In this instalment of our graphene series we discuss commercialising flexible graphene supercapacitors.

Another instalment in our series on the graphene industry.

International and national assessments of the global electricity storage market have been hindered by uncertainty about which technologies and market segments to include. A central question for this roadmap is whether storage is used to support the integration of renewables or for other purposes.

IDTechEx will be back in Tokyo, Japan for their highly regarded series of Business Insight Forums.

Many land, water and airborne electric vehicles harvest all the energy they need. They never plug in. It is the way of the future.

IDTechEx will be back in Tokyo, Japan for their highly regarded series of Business Insight Forums. Taking place at the UDX Conference Center on 29 September, this expert-led Insight Forum will provide you with critical business intelligence and the latest insights into the 3D printing market.

Perovskite solar cells are a breath of fresh air into the emerging photovoltaic technology landscape.

These forums will both address the business and technologies involved - providing significant market data to allow you to understand these complex landscapes.

IDTechEx will be back in Tokyo, Japan for their highly regarded series of Business Insight Forums.

Another in our series of articles on graphene.

The third in our series of articles on the graphene industry.

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Thursday 23 July 2015.

The second in our series of articles by leading players in the graphene industry, discusses progress with the use of graphene and graphene oxide in Li Sulphur batteries.

At IDTechEx we have invited a number of leading players in the graphene industry to write opinion pieces, reflecting on their produces, latest research, market insight, and commercialisation experience. We will be releasing these articles over the next few weeks.

We are sometimes asked how we choose the topics in which we specialise. There are several answers but certainly we choose topics that overlap and address the major technological and societal megatrends of this century. Four particularly come to mind.

There are three important technological megatrends for vehicles that are now coming increasingly important. They are shaping what is designed and the market positioning of new vehicles from type of customer targeted to the location where the vehicles will be used.

Wireless networking is rapidly pervading society, not least in China, where allied topic RFID is lifting off very rapidly.

In the study the new battery technology employs use of graphene on the silicon surface and that confers volume expansion leading to extended battery life.

The industrial and commercial electric vehicle business will be 42% of the EV market in 2025 on IDTechEx analysis with well over 50% of the profits because so much of it is specialist and niche and the vehicles are not bought on up-front price.

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 14 July 2015.

IDTechEx was guest of Qualcomm at the Hilton Hotel Park Lane London 26 June and at the Formula E pure electric car racing in Battersea Park London the day after.

The UK Formula E races took place 28-29 June.

One focus of the second day of this event has been energy harvesting.

Each year IDTechEx Research releases its up-to-date market report on graphene and related materials: Graphene and 2D Materials: Markets, Technologies and Opportunities 2015-2025.

Here is our report on the first day of the Electric and Hybrid Marine World Expo in Amsterdam 23 June.

A new design strategy has emerged for making batteries flexible.

In May 2015, Californian Company, Wrightspeed announced the Fulcrum, a gas turbine on-board range extender for charging the batteries of electric vehicles.

There is healthy disagreement among everyone concerning the optimal products, with some going to grid applications first then planning off-grid or, like Makani, looking only at on-grid.

The power electronics business as applied to electric vehicles is becoming so huge that very divergent approaches become viable.

This is the leading event on this subject: it moves around the world. AWE is the generation of electricity by flying devices in the wind, whether tethered or untethered. Almost all such projects involve tethered devices, over 30 being kites. Some are tethered aircraft that can take off and land themselves

Power electronics is at the heart of the disruptive change of all electric vehicle parts.

IDTechEx interviews in Japan have established that supercapacitors across lithium-ion batteries in cars can increase range by 10% by permitting deep discharge, provided suitable batteries are used that can tolerate such a regime.

At IDTechEx we have been closely following and analysing the transparent conductive film market for the past five years.

This article shares some of the findings of the new IDTechEx Research report, Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles 2015-2030: Land, Water, Air and some of what will be discussed in the forthcoming IDTechEx webinar on 9th June.